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ch3fdan

Was going to buy a game console for cheap for my tv so I could use pandora/netflix all the good stuff. Would this thing be worth it for all the apps alone, I'm not going to use it for blurays. Basically to turn my tv into an internet tv.

Guybrush01

This is the same model I bought for my grandmother a few months back... it works great as long as you are careful how you encode videos you want to watch. Also, if you want to use subs, you can't use MKV. You'll need the .srt file and whatever non MKV video file.

eVil

Mostly applies to Sony Pictures movies as far as I know. Even if your player isn't on the internet, it'll still kick in the copy protection on some legally ripped/burned discs even though you may own the original.

marshallram

I bought one of these for work. We needed something that would play a photo slideshow from a flash drive. The photo player sucks. You have two options, photos the size of a post card or if you Zoom once, it zooms way in. The bluray player would freeze all the time or lag when trying to play a disc. Sometimes it would take several minutes to eject. Took it back to BestBuy and they were like "here comes another one back..."

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Thanks TT. Just for the sake of certainty, that link doesn't include the region. I assume since those are the US specs, this is indeed region 1...?

justmejoseph

mckeerd

Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside.

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Alaric

the features specify that you need an active 3D and active glasses. this is untrue it works perfectly fine with passive systems. samsung only makes active tv so they try to mislead people away from passive.

cubbiemi

StanleyS wrote:...and VERY mixed reviews on Amazon. Maybe the "refurbing" fixed the issues some reviews mentioned.

I noticed much of the anger on the Amazon reviews seemed centered on it not having WIFI but being WIFI ready and people paying $50 for a special dongle to make it work or then being told it only worked as wired.

jimmyd103

That it's my question too. I would say given the state of the economy and taking into consideration the mixed reviews there are better deals to be had on black Friday or closer to Christmas. I think retailers are going to be desperate to unload overstock this year.

stewy0327

jimmyjo

ch3fdan wrote:Would this thing be worth it for all the apps alone, I'm not going to use it for blurays. Basically to turn my tv into an internet tv.

I've owned this model for several months and the streaming movie apps (Vudu and Netflix) are laid out really well. Suspiciously missing from that list is Amazon's instant streaming app, but then my primary blu-ray player lacks Blockbuster, which this one has.

It has pretty full access to the internet, but it is slow and clunky. A caveat: there is only 1 USB port. If you use the USB port for your wireless mouse/keyboard to surf the net more efficiently, you'll have to unplug any USB hard drive you have connected directly to the player.

While we are on the subject of connecting peripherals to it, the manner that it connects to your home network (in case you want to access movie files on your computer) is clunky too. It wants to look for the computer's hard drive, not a peripheral USB hard drive connected to the computer. Which is a bummer for me since my films are not on the internal hard drive (see previous paragraph).

Finally, if you *do* use it as a blu-ray player and access BD-Live features, they can take up a lot of space on the player's internal hard drive, as do the apps. Since it has no SD card slot, you can't store those files on an SD card. You could use a USB stick, I suppose, for added space, but that would mean unplugging your portable hard drive or your mouse/keyboard, which brings us back to doe- a deer, a female deer...

My suggestion is to just connect your computer's RGB cable (video) and line out (audio) to your TV, if possible. I can set my laptop on my dresser next to the TV, connect using a sweet 2-in-1 cable from Monoprice and *whammo!* I can play Bejeweled Blitz from bed.

jbest

ike0069

Guybrush01 wrote:This is the same model I bought for my grandmother a few months back... it works great as long as you are careful how you encode videos you want to watch. Also, if you want to use subs, you can't use MKV. You'll need the .srt file and whatever non MKV video file.

Why do you say you can't you use .srt with mkv files? I have a Sammy TV with Allshare and it plays mkv files with srt.

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